Socket 423, also called PGA423, was a Pin Grid Array (PGA) socket introduced together with Pentium 4 microprocessor family in November 2000.
The socket supported Pentium 4 CPUs and was replaced with socket 478 just in 9 months after its introduction.

You are right. As an occasional observer of the hardware announcements, I have great trouble keeping up with all their names and numbers. I was just trying to contrast the price/performance of the new series as compared to the x-series. Especially those required mobos are really expensive. And as you say, monie is always the showstopper. Once you add your dream CPU, mobo, graphic card and SSD together, you are looking at a new mortage.

Sandy Bridge on schedule !!!!
New generation of Laptops released right after Christmas season as forecast above in topic.http://www.computerworld.com/s.....2011-01-05
If you Built or Bought a computer during the holidays, hope you got a good Discounted Low, Low Price !

Rick, you were right. The i-series prices seem to be falling. Now is the time to buy those. With the G-series I would wait. For one, they are very expensive now and then you can expect the early series to be buggy. I have been too long in computer development to know about the problems with early editions.

By the way, my Good Machine burned up before Christmas, so now I'm running a ZERO COST CONTRAPTION RIG
I put together built with old outdated spare parts and a Northwood 3.0 hyper-threading CPU (Socket 478)
AND yes, I still run (6) HDs - (4 in Raid). (LOL) (LOL)

The machine runs "FAST" as White Lighting" and "SMOOOOOOTH" as a Baby's behind using
[ WIN-32 and Office 2010 ].

Only thing I need to do now is fix my LCD wide screen if possible as old CRT displays are "heck" on my eyes.

These new young Builders have got to get a "Mcgyver Attitude". (LOL) (LOL) (LOL) (LOL)

All the MB Phase voltage regulators plus most of the other chips were destroyed so
just trash canned the whole MB. :( :(
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Had to get back up and running with NO money so that's when I started going through
the old parts back in the junk room.

The components for this rig I'm typing on right this moment range in age back to the year 2000. (LOL)

This MB is an old P4 series Asus with (2) different controllers on-board that cross connect
so it can handle (10) HDs in a SATA plus IDE mixture.

I even put Dual LANS plus WiFi on this "thing". :) :)

Told Mod Scott that no one would ever believe this contraption I built for ZERO DOLLARS
over Christmas BUT it do work WELL !!!!

Everytime I posted on HTG over the Holidays was really for testing purposes.